There’s nothing raunchy or sexual going on at all. XxxHolic is not at all what the misleading title seems to imply. Wikipedia tries to help, but it does seem an uphill struggle for this complex tale. I don't think I have the endurance to track down its manga at this point. And the one character I really wanted the angsty-backstory episode for didn't get one, sigh. I also ended up watching the cross-connected complete Tsubasa anime series, 52 episodes (thanks, Hennepin County Library), in the hopes that more things would be explained some were, but not enough. While Yuuko eventually suffered the usual fate of mentors in such tales, there was a lot of fun to be had along the way with the tropes. I was especially interested in how the old apprentice-and-master plot would work out when the master was an older woman. Nonetheless, I quite enjoyed the read, and would rec the work for those interested in trying out the medium. CLAMP is great with set-ups - and artwork, some of the best - not so great on endings, sometimes. Very enjoyable - it is one of my favorite animes - but the manga run actually raised more questions than it settled. Hoping that any number of things might be better explained therein, I plowed through the whole lot, Vols. I had rewatched the xxxHolic anime recently, which led me to discover my local library had the complete run of the manga. They were well received at the convention, with 6,000 fans in attendance at their panel.

In 2006, they made their first USA public debut at Anime Expo in Anaheim, California. Ohkawa and Igarashi, wanting to go with the flow of Nekoi's and Mokona's name changes, changed their names as well. In a later interview with Ohkawa, it was revealed that initially Mokona wanted to drop her surname because it sounded too immature for her liking, while Nekoi disliked people commenting that her name was the same as Mick Jagger's. The August 2004 issue of Newtype USA, a magazine specializing in events of the anime and manga subcultures, reported that the members of CLAMP simply wanted to try out new names. In 2004, CLAMP's 15th anniversary as a mangaka group, the members changed their names from Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi to Ageha Ohkawa, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi (her name is pronounced the same, but written with different characters) respectively. Currently, there are four members in the group. Other former members of CLAMP also included Soushi Hishika, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Yuzuru Inoue and Shinya Ōmi.

Of the remaining seven, Tamayo Akiyama, Sei Nanao, and Leeza Sei left the group during the production of the RG Veda manga. CLAMP originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member dōjinshi circle, but by 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven.

XxxHolic, Vol. 1 by CLAMP